Why are there no fish in my galaxy?

[VerKer]

@ devs, short wishlist for the next content creation pack:

• aquatic lifeforms
• fish, sharks, dolphins, whales, octopus, starfish, sea urchin, fried fish fingers and the like
• aquatic shipset
• aquatic city look and backgrounds
• strongly bubbling aquatic advisor

Blubb!

 

[MaP_Prime]

I've been thinking about this, and I'm not going to say your wrong, but at the same time I don't know if we really need them. Unless Paradox introduces aquatic specific traits (which might be interesting) it will just be cosmetic. Nothing is stopping us from making up a race we say are an aquatic species, and I assume that most races that originate from ocean worlds are probably partly aquatic. For myself I was inspired to make a humanoid aquatic race after I saw the new Aquaman movie, I put them on an ocean world and wrote up a quick background stating they can survive both on land and on water.

All that said though if Paradox does gives us an aquatic species race portraits and ships and all the other stuff that go with it I would buy it.

 

[3ishop]

There are, they just couldn't develop advanced metal work required for the interplanetary expansion so are swimming about in the water on some of the worlds.

 

[yapxingguan]

They probably found it difficult to enter the bronze age being underwater

 

[Mitchz95]

But why would a fish ever prefer desert planets over ocean ones?

Cetacean species could maybe work, but actual fish wouldn't make sense on non-wet planets.

 

[BlackUmbrellas]

I'd love an "Aquatics" portrait pack. I don't want any special mechanics tied to them, I just want some fish-lookin species. We have shrimp, crabs, various squishy molluscs, but no sharks, dolphins, eels, etc...

 

[Lord Dakier]

They probably found it difficult to enter the bronze age being underwater

Impossible or just not yet proven?

 

[Mercury Seven]

QED

 

[Riftwalker]

There are, they just couldn't develop advanced metal work required for the interplanetary expansion so are swimming about in the water on some of the worlds.

it is pretty hard to make a blast furnace under water.

but this is pulp sci-fi, where are the space dolphins?

 

[Tisifoni12]

I thought they had, some of the portraits look a bit fishy to me. One reminds me of the hammerhead shark. And there's a crayfish type portrait.

But for any species to develop technology they're going to have to evolve to spend at least part of their time breathing air in order to for example smelt ore and forge and Smith metal.

Some fish and octopi can come out onto land for short periods.

 

[Riftwalker]

I thought they had, some of the portraits look a bit fishy to me. One reminds me of the hammerhead shark. And there's a crayfish type portrait.

But for any species to develop technology they're going to have to evolve to spend at least part of their time breathing air in order to for example smelt ore and forge and Smith metal.

Some fish and octopi can come out onto land for short periods.

they could just have floating smelters really...

imagine making boats just to use the air for easy blast furnacing.

 

[Stars_and_Bars]

@ devs, short wishlist for the next content creation pack:

• aquatic lifeforms
• fish, sharks, dolphins, whales, octopus, starfish, sea urchin, fried fish fingers and the like
• aquatic shipset
• aquatic city look and backgrounds
• strongly bubbling aquatic advisor

Blubb!

The more portrait packs and the more advisor voices, the better.

Personally I really liked that some mammalian species had sexual dimorphism, there was a patch where they took that out. I don't know if current mammalian portraits have sexual dimorphism, because the mod that adds it back in is something that I will literally never play without.

I'd like to more species portraits have sexual dimorphism and if it's currently disabled, I'd like to see it be reinstated.

 

[Ecervele]

QED

IT'S A TRAP!!!

 

[Riftwalker]

The more portrait packs and the more advisor voices, the better.

Personally I really liked that some mammalian species had sexual dimorphism, there was a patch where they took that out. I don't know if current mammalian portraits have sexual dimorphism, because the mod that adds it back in is something that I will literally never play without.

I'd like to more species portraits have sexual dimorphism and if it's currently disabled, I'd like to see it be reinstated.

i too liked it, made species feel more alive when they all weren't the same or just different colored.

 

[Maethendias]

there is a discussion about how ... "unrealistic" "aquatic" spaceships would be... if you think about it


its one thing to fill a tub with air and fling it into space... than to fill it with liquid and all the logistics that come with that, AND TRYING FLING THAT ONE INTO SPACE

not even mentioning the pressure management required for this sort of thing, the weight issues alone would render the whole "aquatic ship" fantasy pretty unrealistic

 

[eagletrekkie]

QED

Interesting that the bridge is filled with air and not water...

 

[Maethendias]

^thats not what people refer to when talking about "aquatic" ships tho

when people say "aquatic ship" they more often then not mean the "boron" type of ship (from the x universe) that are, well, filled with liquid.

 

[eagletrekkie]

^thats not what people refer to when talking about "aquatic" ships tho

when people say "aquatic ship" they more often then not mean the "boron" type of ship (from the x universe) that are, well, filled with liquid.

I mean, I was more replying to the implication that the Mon Calamari were proof that underwater civilizations can reach the space age, since they're clearly amphibious.

 

[Maethendias]

^thats not what i was saying tho (nor are the calamari acutally "pure" aquatic, they are amphibian)

i would like to see a sci fi with an aqua civilization that has managed to overcome those problems tho...3

 

[Astax]

Nice, but I think we are starved for ANY flavor, not just fishsticks.